Help! seltext in a textbox

could anyone help me with the following , its driving me crazy!!.....

i am reading lines of text from a saved file using the LINE INPUT# statement. i need to put each line in the same textbox. In order to do this i need to add chr$(13) + chr$(10) so each line is separate. The problem i have is when i want to know the selstart of the selected text it adds 2 characters (the return and linefeed) to my seltext.

Is there a way of using the selstart without including these?

any ideas?

thanks.